Democratic Party of Oregon (DPO): the co-chair of Ashland chapter of PGP introduced campaign finance reform before the Sunriver conference. It was opposed by DPO executive director and state (Dems?) at the conference.

Steve Geiger asked the questions about what roadblocks are there to stop corporate access.

12 noon, lunch. Lori Burton, facilitator for the gathering stated after lunch the PGP members would spend an hour cleaning up the park adjacent to the Newport Public Library.

3 pm, meeting resumes.

Teresa Keane says we need to close corporate loopholes and work for good media access.

National convention was this last summer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. National election - proportional representation. National bylaws, coordinated campaign, Green Pages, media standing committees. Oregon 2 national delegates. People who run the office on state level. Creditation(?) seem to fill out(?).

PGP nominating convention in Ashland, Oregon, February 2006. GPUS: Greens, women, black, youth, latin@, world greens. Joanne Cvar discussed the email language problem. Not the federal government mandate that thou shalt not speak. Lori Burton: we need to be considerate to sensibilities of human beings.

1:00 PM(?) guitar performance by Jeff Strang.

Steve Geiger state that the PGP and GPUS is in a leavening process and growing pains. Joanne Cvar stated we need to work with consensus. Listening to others is a win-win situation. Democracy, we can take a vote.